LINGUIST List 13.2937

Wed Nov 13 2002

Books: Phonology: Lubowicz

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1. glsa, Contrast Preservation in Phonological Mappings

		
Title: Contrast Preservation in Phonological Mappings
			
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass
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Author: Anna Lubowicz 

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Abstract:

The present study investigates how information about contrasts is
employed in the grammar. It is proposed that contrast preservation
exists as an independent principle, which, within the framework of
Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993), is formalized as a
family of rankable and violable constraints on preserving
contrasts. Those constraints interact with one another and with
conflicting markedness constraints resulting in preservation or
neutralization of underlying distinctions in surface forms
(cf. Trubetzkoy 1971, Martinet 1967). By re-examining the role of
contrast, this study makes a significant contribution to our
understanding of a phonological system and the nature of a
phonological mapping (cf. Kaye 1974, 1975; Kisseberth 1976).

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